Georgia Trend Daily – May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024 WABE
Guns, gambling, abortion and more: Here are the ballot questions for the 2024 primary elections in metro Atlanta
Patrick Saunders reports, the final day to vote in this year’s primary elections is on Tuesday, when voters across Georgia will have their say in who to send to November’s general election. There are contested primaries for Congress, the state legislature and high-profile local offices.
May 21, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Georgia’s Battery-Powered Future
Mary Anne Dunkin reports that less than two decades ago, the Kia Georgia plant made history – as the Korean automaker’s first manufacturing operation in the U.S. and, at the time, the largest economic project in Georgia. Kia’s $1.2 billion facility, along with a network of suppliers, brought thousands of jobs – and new life – to Troup County, a once-struggling textile area that had one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.
May 21, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Flight attendants union meets in Atlanta amid push to unionize at Delta
Kelly Yamanouchi reports that leaders of the Association of Flight Attendants are holding their national convention this week in Atlanta, the hometown of Delta Air Lines — the union’s white whale it has sought for decades to organize. The airline industry is highly unionized, and the AFA represents cabin crew members at more than a dozen carriers.
May 21, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
EPA awards $2 Million for Cleanup of Former NWGa Regional Hospital Site
Staff reports that a $2 million grant has been awarded for environmental cleanup work at the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital site, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Monday. The Rome-Floyd County Development Authority is the recipient of the grant, which comes from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
May 21, 2024 Athens Banner-Herald
Nearly $2 million in ARPA seed money sought for workforce development initiative in Athens
Jim Thompson reports that a coalition of local business leaders, educators, neighborhood leaders and others have made a pitch to Athens-Clarke County’s mayor and commission for nearly $2 million in seed money for a sweeping workforce development program dubbed “Athens Achieves.” The request comes as county officials continue allocation of the $57.6 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds provided to the county government under a nationwide $1.9 trillion economic stimulus initiative.
May 21, 2024 Augusta Chronicle
Regional airport celebrates $3 million terminal expansion
Joe Hotchkiss reports that Augusta Regional Airport’s new expansion extends the terminal just a few feet further onto the tarmac, but it goes a long way toward growing the community, area leaders said Friday. Giving the airport an extra 2,000 square feet doesn’t sound like “a ton of space, but it’s actually extremely important what we’ve done in this particular project,” said Herbert Judon, the airport’s executive director, on Friday before the ceremonial ribbon-cutting opening the addition.
May 21, 2024 Macon Telegraph
Officials boast millions in sales from Macon amphitheater. Restaurants see a boost too
Myracle Lewis reports that the new Atrium Health Amphitheater, which has attracted a number of diverse artists to Macon for local concert-goers, is also generating increased revenue for local businesses, according to city officials. The 12,000-capacity venue’s current economic impact data reveals that it has already had a significant influence on Macon-Bibb’s economy after only nearly two months of operation.
May 21, 2024 The Brunswick News
Mercer University showcases project to preserve Gullah Geechee at Epworth by the Sea
Staff reports that a project to preserve Gullah Geechee and African-American heritage and heritage sites in the Golden Isles was showcased Saturday at Epworth by the Sea in a program free and open to the public. Entitled Sacred Ground: Ebo Landing Past and Present, the program consisted of digital stories based on interviews conducted by Mercer University students in collaboration with the St. Simons African American Heritage Coalition.
May 21, 2024 Marietta Daily Journal
Former Cobb Congressman Barr Elected NRA President
Annie Mayne reports that former Cobb County congressman has been elected president of the National Rifle Association. Bob Barr took over the office at the 2024 NRA convention in Dallas Monday, succeeding the organization’s first three-term leader, Charles Cotton.
May 21, 2024 State Affairs
After years of harassment, election workers head into the primary more confident about their safety
Tammy Joyner reports, death threats and harassing phone calls and emails got so bad for Douglas County’s top election official that he stopped using the front entrance to the election office building. “It all started in the aftermath of the 2020 [presidential] election and conspiracy theories around elections,” said Milton Kidd, director of elections and voter registration for Douglas, just west of Atlanta.
May 21, 2024 GPB
Health care workers facing mental stress, burnout have better protections under new Georgia law
Even before the pandemic, overwhelmed nurses and hospital emergency room staff felt stressed. Now, a new bill better protects health care workers from burnout by allowing more privacy when seeking behavioral health care.
May 21, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Why you should pay attention to Georgia’s primaries
Greg Bluestein reports, for some of Georgia’s most competitive contests, Tuesday’s primaries will set the stage for a November race. But for others, the outcome will effectively render a final verdict.
